Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^
"Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is
>> documented anywhere, though),
>
> The latter is not exactly a shortcut for the former. You can try it at any
> merge commit, and you will see different log. For instance, in Git repo:
> ...
> So, I believe, rev^! means --first-parent rev^..rev
Not quite. From Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt:
SPECIFYING RANGES
----------------- Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
and its parent commits exists. `r1{caret}@` notation means all
parents of `r1`. `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
its all parents.Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>